Jakes and her brother Dustin, who live in a flying Victorian house with their parents, who collect missing souls and reunite them with their owners, present stories, facts, and activities about color, trees, and the night.

Jakes and Dustin Take Off

Elkins, Tilke

Children's Books

Woodley & Watts

Pithy, sometimes surprisingly funny poetry grouped under such headings as Parents, Lovers, Artists, Landscapes, Other People, Transcendence, and Dogs.

A Bulldog's Guide to Small Engine Repair

Literature & Fiction

Cochise, Portlin

Poetry

The recipes in this appealing book were compiled from personal cookbooks begun in the 1890s and added to for sixty years. With Vermont frugality, they were pasted onto and written in the blank spaces of hardbound books. Selections from two volumes of vernacular light verse by Mary Elkins Gardyne, Oup in Ole Vermont and Encore, accompany recipes with names that are gastronomic poetry in themselves: Red Flannel Hash, Hedgehogs, Mutton Dressed Like Venison, and Kiss Me Cake.

Recipes & Rhyme: Comfort Food from the Northeast Kingdom

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Adams, Annie

Cooking Education & Reference

This exciting and educational book -- filled with eye-opening interviews, personal stories, and more than 100 pictures -- breaks down stereotypes and offers a truly firsthand taste of the richness and diversity of African culture, history, environment, and politics. Compiled by a group of young Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds who trekked the continent from Cape Town to Tangier, An African Odyssey puts readers in the center of the action, and teaches them how they can act on what they've learned in "Making a Difference" sidebars.

An African Odyssey: Capetown to Timbuktu (Odyssey World Trek Adventure)

Hummel, Abeja

Action & Adventure

There is another dimension which exists so nearby that we often travel there and back without even knowing it. (Perhaps we have the vaguest feeling something's missing in our lives--and it probably is.) Only people who are very wise or very young can tell the difference. It's obvious enough--but it can only be seen by those with hearts attuned to the things that really matter.   As twelve-year-old Abigail knows only too well, most people see, hear, and feel only the most ridiculous, unimportant things. She hates her name, she hates her parents: bookkeeper Bob and his wife, stepmother Sue. She hates her school, she hates her town, and, most of all, she hates her life. But that's about to change. A race of beings whose job it is to keep the galaxy alive connects with this young girl in a last ditch effort to save the universe. Worlds collide as a kaleidoscopic cast of characters take you on an astonishing journey where anything is possible--as long as you give up everything you think you know.  What Abigail Anderson knows--and Harry Potter and the others do not--is that the archetypes we confront, the shades of good and evil they represent, and the intimacies they harbor are the natural turf of little girls, not little boys. In "The Star Eaters" her adventures with the race who guides the world often depend more on the revealing and sharing of secrets than the exchange of blows.

The Star Eaters

Partous, Madeleine

So begins this utterly charming and disarming story of Victoria's life so far. She is eight years of age, well beyond puberty for one of her kind, so though the book may be enjoyed by younger readers, only adults will appreciate the many levels on which her prose does its fecund work. Her pain at being struck down by SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), forcing her to retire to a tropical island called Madagascar, located in an upstairs bedroom; her vast joy in apples and almonds; the warmth she feels toward her family combined with her considerable self-knowledge and poise -- all make this a cathartic book that leaves an acorn in the throat and a smile on the face.

Confessions of a Pot Bellied Pig

Howe, Valmai

Animals

This debut collection comes from the gut--and the heart. The best of the works are raw and funny and emotion-shredding, all at the same time. They're passionate, intense, urgent, and full of the ecstasy, desperation, desolation, and delight of a young man pursued by love, drugs, liquor, and words, words, words. Not yet 30, Lane is a road poet. Highways have taken him from Dallas to Memphis to Chicago and finally to Sedona, Arizona where he's parked his Harley for the time being. His poetry mentor is Clebo Rainey. His dog's name is Bukowski. The woman he's waited all his life for is Akasha. Read him with your eyes hanging out and know again the joys and sorrows of being new in the world. The book contains 26 prints by Joanna Pregon and a CD of Mr. Lane reading 18 of the poems.

Who Is Your God Now?

Lane, Christopher

Poems by followers of the spiritual master Sri Chinmoy. They reflect Sri Chinmoy's philosophy of progress along what he calls "the sunlit path." It is a road best traveled, says the master, with "love, devotion, and surrender."

Swans Along the Sunlit Path

Bhikshuni

A rollicking collection of formal poetry that addresses the question: "Why have relationships at all if they can't be turned to creative advantage?" Pantoums, vilanelles, triolets, rondeaus, kyrielles and sonnets.

A Weakness for Men

Williams, Jill

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